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Events that may be of interest to our research community that are sponsored by organizations outside of NC TraCS.

Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds: Improve Patient Access to Kidney Transplant

Friday, March 29, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Effect Of A Multicomponent Intervention to Improve Patient Access to Kidney Transplant and Living Kidney Donation: A Pragmatic, Cluster-Randomized Trial

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Amit Garg, MD, MA (Education) FRCPC, FACP, PhD
Associate Dean, Clinical Research, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Lead, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Kidney, Dialysis and Transplantat...

Duke University: Vascular and Neuroimmune Contributions to Brain Function Symposium

Wednesday, April 03, 2024 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Vascular and Neuroimmune Contributions to Brain Function Symposium

Join the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Department of Anesthesiology at Duke University for a symposium on vascular and neuroimmune contributions to brain function. The event features a keynote speech from Costantino Iadecola, MD, director of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine. Held in-person at the...

Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds: A New Look at P Values for Randomized Clinical Trials

Friday, April 05, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

A New Look at P Values for Randomized Clinical Trials

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Erik van Zwet, PhD
Department of Biomedical Data Sciences
Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands

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CRI: Developing a Pipeline for the Discovery of Anti-Enterovirus Cross-Reactive Monoclonal Antibodies

Tuesday, April 09, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Developing a Pipeline for the Discovery of Anti-Enterovirus Cross-Reactive Monoclonal Antibodies

Join the Children's Research Institute for a hybrid seminar with Timothy Thoner, PhD, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Vogt Laboratory in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UNC School of Medicine. Participate in the seminar either in person at 3116 Mary Ellen Jones Building (with lunch provided) or via Zoom.

Zoom information - Me...

Sheps Center: Book Launch—Equal Care

Tuesday, April 09, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Book Launch: Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State

Join the Sheps Center in celebrating a new book written by Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State. In Equal Care, Berkowitz delves into the social mechanisms that connect injustice to poor health. He presents practical policies designed to create a system of social relations that ensures equa...

OHRE: Coffee with the IRB

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Coffee with the UNC Office of Human Research Ethics & IRB

Date/Time: April 10 from 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Location: Brinkhous-Bullitt, 2nd Floor, Room 219

The UNC Office of Human Research Ethics (OHRE/IRB) would like to invite you to chat with the UNC OHRE Director, Associate Directors, IRB Analyst and IRB Senior Analyst over coffee. Register early to reserve your spot as space is limited!

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Odum Institute: Designing Web Surveys

Thursday, April 11, 2024 9:30 am - 1:30 pm

Designing Web Surveys

This 4-hour course will be held online only. Attendance is required as it will not be recorded.

This course will provide an introduction to effectively designing web surveys to avoid common pitfalls that impact data quality and introduce measurement error. The course will focus on the following elements of web survey design – overall formatting and visual layout of screens, selecting and designing questions...

Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds: Primary Palliative Care for Emergency Medicine

Friday, April 12, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Primary Palliative Care for Emergency Medicine, A Clustered-randomized Stepped-wedge Trial Across 33 Emergency Departments

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Corita R. Grudzen, MD, MSHS, FACEP
Fern Grayer Chair in Oncology Care and the Patient Experience
Division Head, Supportive and Acute Care Services
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Weill Cornell M...

Odum Institute: Detecting Change in Within-Person Processes

Friday, April 19, 2024 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Detecting Change in Within-Person Processes

Behavioral researchers are often interested in change within-persons over time that may occur due to environmental phenomenon or during the course of an intervention. In some circumstances there is a question of both whether and when change occurs. This course introduces applied approaches for determining whether and when change occurs using individual, person-specific data. The course will...

Odum Institute: Advanced Statistical Machine Learning

Tuesday, April 23, 2024 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

This one-day course will be offered via Zoom only. Attendance is required as it will not be recorded.

Course Summary:
Statistical machine learning is an interdisciplinary research area which is closely related to statistics, computer sciences, engineering, and bioinformatics. Many statistical machine learning techniques and algorithms have proven to be very useful for various scientific areas. This course will cover a number of unsu...

Odum Institute: Optimizing Data Collection and Creating Maps with Drones

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Optimizing Data Collection and Creating Maps with Drones

This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies. Attendance is required - this course will not be recorded.

This one-day short course, led by the Carolina Drone Lab, will cover drone data collection, planning, and analysis. Small unoccupied aircraft systems (sUAS or drones) are a common mapping and 3D-model...

CCCR Speaker Series: Value of Knee OA Treatments

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 9:30 am - 10:30 am

Value of Knee OA Treatments

Join the UNC School of Medicine Thurston Arthritis Research Center for a UNC Core Center for Clinical Research (CCCR) Speaker Series seminar featuring Elena Losina, PhD. Losina is the Robert W. Lovett Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Director of the PIVOT Center, and Director of the OrACORe in the Department of Orthodedic Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Knee osteoarthritis is a debilitating pa...

Odum Institute: Google Earth Engine for Urban Studies

Thursday, April 25, 2024 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies.

Urbanization has been a fundamental trend of the past two centuries and a key force shaping the development of the modern world. While urbanization in rapidly growing nations is helping lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, it is also creating immense societal challenges by increasing greenhouse-gas emis...

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